Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Victor Hugo

Captain Stanley: I will civilize this land.

The Proposition

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Alfred Marshall

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

John Muir

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

Mark Hopkins

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

Hugh Hefner

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

Bill Kristol

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.

W.A.R. Gibb

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Chapterhouse: Dune

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

The Crisis

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The History of Freedom

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

On Liberty

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

The Law

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.

David Limbaugh

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Plato

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

Tony Blair

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

Ted Cruz

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Thomas Jefferson

The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.

Thomas Jefferson